Henry Buckley - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 1153 |
| Age: | 15 (born 1 September 1881) |
| Whence received: | H M Prison Stafford |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Dark brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Height: | 4 ft 10 ins |
| Particular marks: | Ink + [cross] on right forearm; 2 small warts right breast |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission: | 14 April 1897 |
| Late residence: | Grove Place Darley Lane, Derby |
| Parish he belongs to: | - |
| Customary work and mode of life: | - |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | - |
| Writes: | - |
| Offence: | Larceny |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Police report - boy incorrigible, every attempt and kindness unavailable |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 31 March 1897; S Blount and S B Bamford; Uttoxeter Petty Sessions |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison Stafford |
| Sentence: | 14 days in prison, detained at Saltley until 19 years old |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 3 |
| Length: | 1) (24 August 1892) 5 strokes; 2) (3 February 1897) fined 1s; 3) (3 March 1897) fined 10s and costs |
| For what: | 1) Stealing cheese; 2) rowdyness; 3) stealing pigeons |
| Father's name: | Frederick Buckley |
| Occupation: | Iron dresser |
| Mother's name: | Anne Buckley |
| Occupation: | Housewife |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | Fair |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Parents address: | Grove Place, Darley Lane, Derby |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | A A Kent, Justices' Clerk |
| Notes: | |
| 5 February 1897 A previous offence was reported in the Derby Daily Telegraph Friday 5 February 1897 p.4 col.3: THROWING SNOWBALLS. - Louis Lymner, William Greenhough, Ernest Udale, and Henry Buckley were charged by Kettle with snowballing in High Street on the 27th ult. - They were ordered to pay 1s. each. | |
| 10 March 1897 Another previous offence was reported in the Uttoxeter Advertiser and Ashbourne Times Wednesday 10 March 1897 p.5 col.1: THEFT OF PIGEONS BY BOYS. - Three Uttoxeter boys, named Louis Lymer, Henry Buckley, and William Greatorex, were charged with having stolen on the 22nd ult., eight pigeons, belonging to Arthur and Henry Hutton, of Dove Bank. The pigeons were fastened up on the night of the 21st, and the following morning were missing. Some wire netting had been broken down, and footprints in the garden corresponded with the boots of Lymer and Buckley. - David C. Newman, of the Highwood, said the boys came to his house on the 23rd ult., and asked whether his boy wanted to buy any pigeons, they at the time having four with them. A little later he saw them with a piece of string tied to one of the pigeons. - Police-constable Felmingham stated that Greatorex told him that he waited whilst the others fetched the pigeons at 12.30 midnight. - The charge against Greatorex was dismissed, but the others, against whom there were several previous convictions were fined 10s. and 12s. costs each, or a month's imprisonment. | |
| 24 March 1897 The remand hearing for the crime that sent him to Saltley was reported in the Uttoxeter Advertiser and Ashbourne Times Wednesday 24 March 1897 p.5 col.1: SPECIAL POLICE COURT. MONDAY. Before S. B. Bamford, Esq. PRECOCIOUS YOUTHS. - Henry Buckley and Lewis Lyrner, youths, of Uttoxeter, were charged by Thos. Alfred Seaton (whose parents live in the Blacksmith's Yard, Balance Street), with stealing a quantity of milk. The case was proved by P.c. Felmingham. It appears that on Friday morning, Seaton was returning from Church Street, with a can of milk when the accused youths met him. One of them seized the can and drank his fill, and then passed it on to his companion, who, when he drunk what he wanted, flung the remainder against a wall. Prisoners were remanded to the workhouse till next Petty Sessions. The sentence was briefly reported in the Uttoxeter Advertiser and Ashbourne Times Wednesday 7 April 1897 p.5 col.3 | |
| 31 August 1900 Sentence expired, discharged from Saltley | |
